Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-26
LOCAL JOTS.

Engaged at the Theatre tonight.
The matinee at the Theatre this after
noon was only fairly we'll attended.
A band of about zoo horses was driven
northward through the city to-day.
The DEMOCRAT shows some handsome new
signs on the front of its new home to-day.
The foot hills around Ensign Peak are
dotted all over by an immense flock of
sheep.
Young man if you can't be engaged, you
can, at least, see it by going to the Theatre
tonight.
Notice the new advertisements IN this
issue of The DEMOCRAT and draw your own
conclusions as to its growing popularity.
Philip Carroll was fined $40 in the Police
Court to-day for being drunk. Dan Nc
Carly and Schwitzer each got S. for the
same offense.
thing of interest in our advertising columns
to-day. They offer choice lot of goods at
special prices for few days.
We call attention to what Messrs. Clayton
d Co. have to say in their new advertise
ment in to-day's issue. The gentlemen of
this firm are alive to the interests of their
patrons.
There has been considerable street talk
about trouble and disputed ground belong
ing to Mr.. Karrack. This outside talk
amounts to nothing. The whole affair was
settled satisfactorily this morning.
The well-knoWn chippies, Adeline Han
cock and her daughter, Sarah Rowe, were
tried in the Police Court yesterday after
noon and lodged in Jail, the senior to spend
149 days, and the daughter 20 days.
Policeman Daniels was tried in the Police
Court yesterday and fined $1,000 for speak
ing harshly, and thereby wounding the
overly sentative nature of the hotel runner,
Atkins. This runner, by the way, is one of
the three that Mr.. Daniels testified against
this week.
The recent rabbit hunt in Southern Utah
resulted in the Beaver boys killing LIP of
the little animals while the parties from
Adamsville and Grantsville together got
$500, making a total of app in one day.
Men. women and children armed with any
thing from broomstick to howitzer did
the work.
One hundred and fifty people coming from
the East and West registered at three OF
our leading hotels this morning. How long
would it take, at this rate of influx for the
Gentiles in this city to become the majority
WHY do you brighten them away with your
stories of the Mormons. and the impossi
bility to put them out of Office?
The ladies of this city will doubtless be
pleased to see Madame Buttons announce
ment elsewhere in this issue. The lady is
we'll known as modiste, and her many
friends will be pleased to welcome her back
to Salt Lake. The DEMOCRAT Joins in the
welcome, and calls attention to the notice
giving date of opening. Don't forget April
the I'd.
The base ball game between the Nationals
and picked nine at Mill Creek will take
place about the last of the month. The
game as arranged upon at present is to be a
friendly one. Friendly" don't mean
that the batsman is barred from breaking
the umpire's head or that the pitcher is not
allowed to double the batsmen up; it means
simply that there will be no money put up.
Mrs. Leah Paul. wife of Adam Paul, was
out riding yesterday with four little children
near the railroad track in the Sixth Ward
when a train came upon them unawares,
and the usually quiet horse SHE'D and tipped
the buggy over, throwing Mrs. Paul and the
children violently to the ground. The lady
struck upon her head and while she is
severely injured no serious results are
anticipated. The children escaped without
injury, which can scarcely be said of the
buggy. There were two of Mrs. Paurs
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the buggy with the lady and it is almost
miraculous that they escaped without in
jury.
Some complaints are heard in regard to
the apparent dishonesty of small failures.
That there is no law by which to reach such
cases is a sad commentary on our Solons.
To illustrate: There recently failed In this
city a man who to all intents and purposes
was doing good business. Some three or
four days before making an assignment he
bought a bill of goods from a well-known
merchant, and failing, preferred not the
man who had so recently sold him the
goods, but another TO whom he was indebted.
To an outside party it looks as though the
goods were obtained by fraud. Surely a man
In business must know at least three days
before he fails that he will be obliged to
name an assignee, and why should he, with
the semblance of honesty, take goods from
one man without paying for them, turn
them over to another, and then gracefully
retire from business? This may have the
appearance of smartness, but it surely
smRcks of dishonesty.